HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Lockdowns and travel retrictions prompted by the new coronavirus have been a boon to JOOX, Chinese tech giant Tencent's international music streaming platform, driving traffic to its karaoke services up by as much as 50%, an executive said.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Lockdowns and travel retrictions prompted by the new coronavirus have been a boon to JOOX, Chinese tech giant Tencent's international music streaming platform, driving traffic to its karaoke services up by as much as 50%, an executive said.
"It's exactly during this period of time the usage of karaoke jumped like 30% to 50%, depending on the countries," Poshu Yeung, vice president of Tencent's International Business Group, told Reuters in an interview.The platform's karaoke feature allows users to sing along with friends and receive online gifts purchased with virutal coins in the app.
Yeung said some users in Southeast Asia are now willing to pay, although they still remain a small portion of the total subscribers.
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